Friday 17 November 2023

Where is the Hamas command and control bunker?

With the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza surrounded and occupied by Israeli troops, Israel now really does need to prove to the world its accusation that directly under the hospital is the Hamas command and control bunker. This accusation has been around for years but so far the Israeli defence forces have only allowed reporters to see very limited evidence - a bunch of AK-47s lined up on a floor and what looks like an abandoned entry underground. I guess what the world was expecting was a large operations centre, with laptops and computers and screens showing targets in Israel and Hamas fighters with headphones. But nothing like that has been uncovered. So where are all these tunnels and bunkers and what are the Israeli troops going to do about them? We know they exist because a released hostage described how she was forced to walk along a spider's web of tunnels. To bring this war to an end these tunnels and bunkers need to be closed up for ever. But somewhere down there are the 240 hostages still being detained. Fighting their way to get to them isn't going to free them and it will lead to countless casualties. But unless these hostages, most of them Israeli, are freed soon, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is going to be confronted by an angry and rebellious nation.

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